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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Winter 2016/17 - Adria Airways

Adria Airways will increase frequencies on a number of destinations out of its main hub in Ljubljana during the upcoming winter season, which begins on Sunday, October 30. The Slovenian carrier will introduce an additional weekly flight from Ljubljana to Paris, as well as an extra two weekly services to Amsterdam, Sarajevo and Warsaw. The airline will strengthen operations to the Polish capital despite added competition from LOT Polish Airlines, which launched services from Warsaw to Ljubljana in March this year. Adria will also add three weekly services to Zurich. Unlike last winter, it no longer contends against Swiss International Air Lines on the route, since the latter suspended flights. Elsewhere, the Slovenian carrier will introduce an additional two weekly departures from Pristina to Frankfurt and will maintain operations between Tirana and Munich, as well as between Lodz and Paris, which were introduced during the summer.

On the other hand, the airline will discontinue several flights, most of which were either terminated mid-way through the 2015/16 winter season or during the preceding summer. They include services between Ljubljana and Istanbul, which were suspended in January this year, as well as flights from Tirana to Brussels and Paris. In line with previous announcements, the carrier will discontinue operations on the Ljubljana – Berlin route, however it plans to maintain flights to the German capital on a seasonal summer basis, indicating that services will resume during the 2017 summer season. Adria will also decrease the number of operated flights between Ljubljana and Tirana from nine weekly last winter to daily. Meanwhile, the newly introduced service between Pristina and London Luton, launched during the summer, will also be discontinued.

The 2016/17 winter season runs until March 25, 2017. Please note that the changes listed below are preliminary and based on current availability in the Global Distribution System (GDS). Furthermore, the table below displays the peak weekly frequency on each route during the course of the winter season. EX-YU Aviation News will bring you winter season changes for each national carrier in the former Yugoslavia over the coming weeks. In the meantime, you can also review changes made by Air Serbia.

Departing Ljubljana

Destination

Frequency W15/16

Frequency W16/17

Change

Notes

Amsterdam

3

5

▲2

-

Berlin

3

0

▼3

-

Brussels

12

12

-

-

Copenhagen

2

2

-

-

Frankfrut

20

20

-

-

Istanbul

7

0

▼7

-

Moscow

6

6

-

-

Munich

14

14

-

-

Paris

4

5

▲1

-

Podgorica

3

3

-

-

Prague

3

3

-

-

Pristina

6

6

-

-

Sarajevo

4

6

▲2

-

Skopje

7

7

-

-

Tirana

9

7

▼2

-

Vienna

12

12

-

-

Warsaw

3

5

▲2

-

Zurich

12

15

▲3

-

Departing Pristina

Destination

Frequency W15/16

Frequency W16/17

Change

Notes

Frankfurt

5

7

▲2

-

Ljubljana

6

6

-

-

Munich

4

4

-

-

Departing Tirana

Destination

Frequency W15/16

Frequency W16/17

Change

Notes

Brussels

2

0

▼2

-

Frankfurt

3

3

-

-

Paris

2

0

▼2

via Brussels

Ljubljana

9

7

▼2

-

Munich

0

4

▲4

-

Departing Lodz

Destination

Frequency W15/16

Frequency W16/17

Change

Notes

Amsterdam

4

4

-

-

Munich

11

11

-

-

Paris

0

3

▲3

-

Adria will also continue to maintain two weekly flights between Rzeszow in Poland to Paris. Services from Olsztyn to Munich, launched during the summer will be suspended.

I was just going to write that. Maybe both LJU and ZAG can't sustain more than one carrier to MOW.I am surprised that SU doesn't even fly daily to ZAG in winter. I guess the market is really not that big.

Maybe OU should rather concentrate on summer seasonal flights from the coast to Russia, like Aegean does with their islands.

That is easily explicable. Ties between Cro and Rus are much much weeker than between Srb and Rus. There are no commonalities such as the writing, holidays or religion. In Croatia hardly anyone would think of Russia as a transfer point but also there is only very little O&D demand particularly in off season.

JP figures on SVO lane are heading downwards too. And yep not sure how well Russias eco ties with Croatia areCroatia is ot very euphoric in terms of Russia. Croatia in Summer even refused help from Russia to fight forestfires

At this point we should clarify that there are two markets when speaking of Russia and Croatia.

1. A market between Zagreb and Russia.2. A market between the coast and Russia.

The first is probably small and can be served by Aeroflot.

The second is much bigger and it's seasonal. There are still quite a few Russians visiting the coast during the summer months. Wasn't it on here that someone shared a few days ago a picture of two Transaero B744s parked in Pula?

I am generally curious to know what kind of passengers do fly on SU between ZAG and SVO. Aeroflot has developed its business model around offering connections between Europe and Asia. I can't believe they are not able to do the same in Zagreb. It would also be interesting to know what percentage of Asian tourists in Croatia actually fly on scheduled flights. I am sure a large percentage of them fly on charters or they combine Zagreb with another city like Vienna or Budapest, which would be their point of entry.

Also, I am not sure visas play a big role. This summer, Cyprus, Greece, Spain and Italy were invaded by Russian tourists. These are all places for which they require a visa to enter.

Nemjee, i also saw there is quite a difference on visa pricing in CHInvititation, Tourist, own pick up in BRN, yearlong visa. Def for much less 260 avbl. I personally i m interested in LED with individual travel, book own. So this gets more expensive. However i m sure one day these visas will be goneI guess Russians hve access to the Adria thru MNE which is probl cheaper for them. Why they are invading MNE with up to 10 daily TIV flights and HR not, i dont know. Interestingly also to see that there is not much Charter flights fm elsewhere to TIV. At least not if u compare fm where they fly to DBV and SPU. Anyhow you can visit DBV or Kotor fm either of the countries and I m sure this also happens intensively

I cited the example of the French Cote d'Azur specifically because Russians need visa to get there too. Visa regime does not stop them visiting Italy, Spain, Greece, UK. I simply cannot understand why this, often well-off market is almost disregarded in Croatia.

also note that SU connectivity is highly limited since they do not more frequencies to ZAG. So, you dont have connections both ways for nearly anything apart from PVG, PEK and DEL. So, no TYO, ICN, SIN, BKK....

Turkish seems to have destroyed every ex-Yu airline on flights to IST. First Croatia, then Adria, Air Serbia holding but not doing very well on that route either although they have to contend with Pegasus as well.

JU schedule to IST is inappropriate!!! par t of it is poor slot but you need to go to fight for a better one. Alternatively open Izmir or Ankara with an early morning departure!..... JU is losing way too much ground on many fronts already ...

Let's see if TK at the end of the day destroys itself with their dumping and overcapacity. If Erdogan continues with his politics TK will at least shrink the next years and become very unprofitable. Both have already started. Many tour operators have already started to avoid TK and IST for eastbound travels, too.

If they want to establish themselves as a transfer airline between Balkans and Eastern Europe to Western Europe then they have to fly more than 3pw to Podgorica and 6 weekly to Pristina. They seem to be on the right track with Sarajevo.

In order to do that they need to prop up their west European operations which they are doing this winter. Ideally they would have done both at the same time. But let’s wait and see what’s in store for summer.

lol they did that because there were strong rumours and talk that they were about to go bust. They wanted to reassure customers. But anyway new owners revised half of the schedule later and cut many frequencies/routes.

Serbian airspace, especially in the north, tends to get rather congested especially with flights to Turkey and the Middle East. Flight paths are assigned some three hours before take off so the route over Serbia was most likely already assigned to too many airlines.

JP is losing potential by ditching OTP. This is where the real business is. You may laugh at me, but they can easily fill 2 daily flights on weekdays. JU started with a few and now there are also 2 daily. SKG and SOF are also quite potential but the market is much smaller. OTP this year is expected to reach over 10 million i.e. 2x BEG imagine what we are talking about. I think JU were very clever.

JU and JP have almost the same frequency on regional destinations SKP, SJJ and TIA. Kind of shocking given given higher number of JU destinations and declared goal to fly 14pw to regional destinations.

Now imagine JU with 5 more longhaul destinations and 10 more Euro/regional destinations. It would make it much easier to fill 14pw to SJJ, SKP, TIA and other regional destinations.

Nice to see some increases, especially to AMS, CDG, WAW. It would be nice to have better frequencies to CPH as well, for better connections to Scandinavia.I agree they should have higher frequencies to exYu if they want to be a serious transfer hub! Maybe next season though ...

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